Carrier Command: Gaea Mission

Based on the original Carrier Command released in 1988, and fully licensed and endorsed by its creators, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission strives to deliver innovative and intense gameplay in a truly next-gen rendition. The game is set in the Gaea Universe, with the story adapted from the science fiction trilogy's second novel. It's story centers on a crew waking from their thirty-year hibernation in the middle of a war that has raged from Earth to humanity's first colony in another solar system.

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Here's the thing that threw me off about Carrier Command: Gaea Mission: it's single player only. The RTS not only tasks players with mining resources and spawning and managing land, sea, and air units, it allows players to take full control of them for some action game fun. Sounds great, right? It also sounds like a fantastic multiplayer experience. Inexplicably, it doesn't have one. Without it, the solo experience better be stellar -- particularly with the $50 price tag. Today, skeptical onlookers like yours truly can begin to find out if it is. The Carrier Command: Gaea Mission demo hits Steam this afternoon. Read More »

Those folks at Bohemia are at it again. The Arma series may seem rather ambitious with its hyper realism and giant maps, but this Carrier Command: Gaea Mission trailer makes that looks like child's play. I mean, look at it. Huge maps with dozens of islands, a ton of playable units, and a full on strategy game all rolled into one. And that Carrier vs. Carrier battle? That looks rad. Read More »

In the sweaty rush and crush that is E3, I managed to miss a number of games big and small, and one I seriously wish I saw is Carrier Command: Gaea Mission. Developer Bohemia Interactive (Operation Flashpoint) is helping to fill in the blanks today with a video of its E3 presentation -- a video that details a stellar looking RTS and action game hybrid that I can't wait to take for a spin. Read More »

25 years is a long time to wait for a sequel. The original 1988 Carrier Command is by most accounts a superb, genre-defying game. It's half strategy, half action -- you command a carrier from above, yes, but you can also jump into the action as one of the planes or tanks under your control, or man the carrier's big guns. This has been an ambition of videogames through the medium's history -- control of what happens at the grand strategic level as well as the nitty-gritty personal level. It's surprising that a game from that era managed to succeed in that goal when so many modern ones attempts have botched it, so it's encouraging to see that the new Carrier Command: Gaea Mission follows directly in the original's design footsteps. Read More »